The draft documents for peer review at the SCA IPR and Licensing Excellence Gateway Workshop on Monday 3 November 2008 have now been removed as they will undergo further revision following the peer review session.
Further documents will be available here shortly. If you have specific comments or enquiries relating to the SCA and IPR please contact Naomi Korn at naomi@naomikorn.com
A peer review workshop for a new SCA Standards Guide will be held on Wednesday, 3 December, 10.30-15.00 at the JISC Meeting Rooms in London. The event will bring together some of the UK’s leading experts in this field – providing an opportunity to share ideas and network in addition to being a “critical friend” to the guide.
The guide has been developed to add context to the JISC Information Environment Standards Catalogue generally and some key standards that affect cultural heritage, health, education/research and public service broadcasting specifically. A DRAFT copy of the guide is available and it would be appreciated if you could consider sending a standards expert to peer review the document. This will include identifying any gaps and recommending any additional supplementary work in this area. The SCA will, in cases where delegates cannot fund travel, reimburse standard class rail travel and economy class flights to London. A buffet lunch and light refreshments will be provided.
Standards Guide workshop agenda
For further information, please email Stuart Dempster.
The Open Knowledge Foundation is holding a workshop on finding and re-using public information on 1 November 2008 at the London Knowledge Lab. Co-organised with the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI), the Power of Information (POI) Taskforce and mySociety, this informal, hands-on workshop will bring government information experts together with those who are interested in finding and re-using government information. In addition to focused discussions about legal and technological aspects of re-use, government information assets will be documented and tagged on CKAN, a registry of knowledge resources.
The Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) works with public sector bodies across the UK to develop a framework to share and access information. The SCA is currently running a series of workshops in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland to incorporate the regional challenges into this framework.
In this podcast Rebecca O’Brien catches up with Stuart Dempster, Director of the SCA, about the alliance’s achievements and what the next steps will be.
Registration for the Audience Analysis peer review workshop on 14 November is now open. Please use this link to register: http://survey.jisc.ac.uk/audanap2-prw. You can also download the draft toolkit which will be under discussion at the event.
In the new edition of the SCA newsletter, find out why search engine marketing is crucial for the digital heritage sector in a Q+A with the Canadian Heritage Network; discover how the SCA is working with the BBC and other partners on CenturyShare, an innovative time-based concept to share public sector content; get up to speed on the e-content related research findings in Report Watch, plus the latest digital content news from around the world, SCA news in brief and dates for your diary.
Click through below to access the newsletter in pdf or Word format. You can also explore the archive of previous issues of the newsletter.
SCA newsletter October 2008 (pdf)
SCA Audience Analysis Toolkit Peer Review Workshop, Friday 14 November, London 12.30-16.30
This workshop will peer review an Audience Analysis Toolkit for public sector bodies which has been developed for the SCA by Curtis and Cartwright. The workshop will review the documentation produced, including any recommendations for new work and will provide an excellent networking opportunity to meet experts in the field.
For more information please contact Emma Beer
Delegates are starting to gather here in the Park Plaza Hotel in Cardiff for the SCA Wales Forum. The event will be opened by Leighton Andrews AM, Deputy Minister for Regeneration at the Welsh Assembly Government (pictured, right) and then the programme will cover:
Follow events as they unfold here on the blog.
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The Strategic Content Alliance sponsors are delighted to be able to invite interested parties to a peer review event on Monday, 3 November 2008 at 13.00-16.30. The event brings together some of UK’s leading IPR and licensing specialists working in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.
It aims to peer review documentation, in the form of an IPR toolkit for public sector bodies which has been produced as part the Strategic Content Alliance’s IPR and licensing work which is being led by Naomi Korn and Professor Charles Oppenheim. The workshop will comment upon the work that has been produced; identify gaps; recommend additional work where necessary; and provide an opportunity for presentations about other aspects of the SCA’s IPR and Licensing work, including:
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We’re pleased to announce that Leighton Andrews AM, the Deputy Minister for Regeneration at the Welsh Assembly Government, will be opening the SCA Wales Forum on Wednesday.
Also speaking at the event will be Simon Delafond of the BBC, Janet Peters from the University of Cardiff, Nancy Moran of Ithaka and Professor Charles Oppenheim.
Download the full programme here, and follow the day as it happens here on the blog.